Reflection at Curved Surface Formulas

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List of Reflection at Curved Surface Formulae

P → Pole
F → Focus
C → Centre of Curvature
F = PF → Focal length
R = PC → Radius of Curvature

Aperture → effective diameter of light reflecting area of the mirror.
Mirror Formula →
$$\frac{1}{v}+\frac{1}{u}=\frac{1}{f}$$

u, v and f represents object distance, image distance and focal focal length respectively.

1. Lateral magnification

m = $$\frac{h_{i}}{h_{0}}=-\frac{v}{u}$$

2. Cartesian sign convention

• All distances are measured from the pole (P) and P is the origin.
• Distances measured to the right of the pole are taken as positive.
• Distances above the principal axis are taken as positive.
• Angles measured from the normal in the anticlockwise sense are positive.

3. Newton’s formula

(i) Position of real object and real image are interchangeable. If I1 and I2 is the height of the image

Then, h0 = $$\sqrt{\mathrm{I}_{1} \mathrm{I}_{2}}$$
I1 = –$$\frac{v}{u} h_{0}$$
I2 = –$$\frac{\mathrm{u}}{\mathrm{v}} \mathrm{h}_{\mathrm{o}}$$

(ii) If distance of object and image is measured from focus instead of pole then,
x0yi = f2
Where x0, yi and f are object distance, image distance from the focus and focal length respectively.

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